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Parent suspectschild may have taken something without permission...
Hello:
My colleague at the office is really upset these days. She thinks that her 9-year-old boy may have taken something from her neighbor's without permission. She has found the item on their side of the yard. In other words she has not found the item in his possession, so she is not sure if her son actually took it. She has not confronted the child yet. Since there is a chance that the kid may deny that he ever took the item, she is not sure how to talk to the kid about it. Any suggestions? Deguza (Post your replies here please.) |
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Parent suspectschild may have taken something without permission...
In article , Kompu Kid says...
Hello: My colleague at the office is really upset these days. She thinks that her 9-year-old boy may have taken something from her neighbor's without permission. She has found the item on their side of the yard. In other words she has not found the item in his possession, so she is not sure if her son actually took it. She has not confronted the child yet. Since there is a chance that the kid may deny that he ever took the item, she is not sure how to talk to the kid about it. Any suggestions? Does the neighbor have kids? In outdoor play, things can get scattered around. The thing to do would be for her to tell her son to return the item in order to clean up the yard, and so that the neighbor can use/enjoy it. Even if there aren't kids and this didn't get left around in play, it doesn't sound like stealing behavior. Things deliberately stolen don't generally get left around on lawns - wouldn't you agree? I can't comment more than that because you don't really give much information. For example, is this item light enough to possibly have been blown over into the yard? Banty |
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Parent suspectschild may have taken something without permission...
In article , Banty wrote:
In article , Kompu Kid says... My colleague at the office is really upset these days. She thinks that her 9-year-old boy may have taken something from her neighbor's without permission. She has found the item on their side of the yard. In other words she has not found the item in his possession, so she is not sure if her son actually took it. She has not confronted the child yet. Since there is a chance that the kid may deny that he ever took the item, she is not sure how to talk to the kid about it. Does the neighbor have kids? In outdoor play, things can get scattered around. The thing to do would be for her to tell her son to return the item in order to clean up the yard, and so that the neighbor can use/enjoy it. Even if there aren't kids and this didn't get left around in play, it doesn't sound like stealing behavior. Things deliberately stolen don't generally get left around on lawns - wouldn't you agree? Banty's advice seems sound here. Even if the child *did* steal the item in question, requesting that the child return the item is a good way to handle it without confrontation. A confrontation is unlikely to be productive, and having the child return the object to the rightful owner (with an apology) would be the appropriate "natural consequences" punishment if theft was involved. -- Kevin Karplus http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~karplus life member (LAB, Adventure Cycling, American Youth Hostels) Effective Cycling Instructor #218-ck (lapsed) Senior member, IEEE Board of Directors, ISCB (starting Jan 2004) Professor of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz Undergraduate and Graduate Director, Bioinformatics Affiliations for identification only. |
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